5 But Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
6 Jehovah said: »If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.
7 »Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.«
8 Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel confusion because Jehovah confused the language of the whole world. Jehovah scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth.